cornu

Latin cornu (“horn”)

cornu (plural cornua)

1. A horn, or anything shaped like or resembling a horn.

From Latin cornu. Compare Daco-Romanian corn.

cornu n (plural coarni/coarne)

1. horn

• curnut

From Latin cornus. Compare Daco-Romanian corn.

cornu n (plural cornji)

1. cornel, European cornel, Cornus mas

• coarnã

From Latin cornūtus.

• IPA^(key): /kɔʁ.ny/

cornu (feminine singular cornue, masculine plural cornus, feminine plural cornues)

1. horned

• cor

• “cornu” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

From Proto-Indo-European *ḱorh₂u, *ḱr̥h₂-no-, both from Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂- (“horn”). Cognate with English horn, hirn; Ancient Greek κρᾱνίον (krāníon, “skull”), κέρας (kéras, “horn”); Sanskrit शृङ्ग (śṛṅgá, “horn, tusk”). See also cerebrum (“brain”), cervus (“deer”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkor.nuː/, [ˈkɔr.nuː]

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cornū n (genitive cornūs); fourth declension

1. a horn, antler
2. a tusk
3. the horns of the moon
4. an arm or wing of an army
5. (music) a horn as a musical instrument
6. any substance like the material of a horn, such as the bill of a bird
7. the end of a book or scroll, usually made of ivory
8. (figuratively) power, strength, might

Fourth declension neuter.

Note: The genitive singular is also cornū in later times.

• Vegetius Renatus, artis veterinariae sive mulomedicinae libri. In: Scriptores rei rusticae ex recensione Io. Gottlob Schneider cum notis. Tomus quintus, Augusta Taurinorum, 1830, p. 72 (lib. I, cap. 20) and 369 (lib. VI, cap. 10):

  [...] salis cappadocis uncias 3, cornu cervini, lapidis gagatis masculi, lapidis gagatis foeminae, ana uncias 3, [...]

  [...] addisque cornu cervini unciam, sinopidis Pontici pastillos tres, opopanacis semiunciam, [...]

• cornu in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cornu in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cornu in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• cornu in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• cornu in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cornu in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

• Wörterbuch der Lateinischen Sprache, nach historisch-genetischen Principien, mit steter Berücksichtigung der Grammatik, Synonymik und Alterthumskunde, bearbeitet von Dr. Wilhelm Freund. Nebst mehreren Beilagen linguistischen und archäologischen Inhalts. Erster Band. A–C, Leipzig, 1834, p. LXVII–LXXXVIII „III. Ueber den genit. sing. der Wörter cornu, gelu, genu etc.“